i CLIMATE AND ASPECTS OE THE EQUATORIAL ZONE 237 
fruiting, and leaf-shedding are always going on in one species 
or other. It is never either spring, summer, or autumn, but 
each day is a combination of all three. With the day and 
night always of equal length, the atmospheric disturbances of 
each day neutralising themselves before each succeeding morn ; 
with the sun in its course proceeding midway across the sky, 
and the daily temperature almost the same throughout the 
year — how grand in its perfect equilibrium and simplicity is 
the march of Nature under the equator ! ” 
